TCTphantom
formerly MX42
Anything more than two tests is just unrealistic.we have time for at least 3 more tests, i think. it's very likely that multiple mons will get high enough support on the next survey that we can have multiple suspects in relatively quick succession
We just banned Ursaluna Blood Moon, which was a very centralizing force. We need to give the meta time to breathe so we can accurately assess our best path forward. Let’s say we give it about two weeks to settle. Then we have a survey for a week. Right as that ends, maybe we get our suspect. That lasts ten days, and we have voting. If the test isn’t as decisive as BM was, that’s probably going to take more than a day.
That alone is a roughly five week time table with the most optimistic of deadlines. There could be a noticeable delay between the survey results and the test for example. Even if we gave the meta less time to stabilize, it’s still likely going to be around 3 and a half weeks at least and more likely about a month. We don’t know when DLC2 is launching, but if it’s launching in mid November that doesn’t give us much room. Even an early December launch doesn’t give us much maneuverability.
Even if say, Kingambit, Waterpon, and Manaphy had the demand for a test and Volc had the demand for a retest, we just wouldn’t have time to give an earnest test to each. Let’s say Gambit was tested next and banned: that’s removing a super centralizing force from our meta. It’s gonna be super hard to say accurately if anything would or would not be broken since that meta would change dramatically. We might be able to look at two of them if we are lucky. More likely we will only have time for one.
Im also not even sure multiple things will reach that BM level for a test. Manaphy discussion has cooled down, Gambit is divisive, things like Alolatales and Gholdengo seem like DLC2 questions. Maybe you could swing a Waterpon test, but even then it doesn’t have the same fervor for a test and I can easily see it surviving. I think within the next two weeks we might see the demand for *maybe* a manaphy or Waterpon test. If I had to choose, I’d go manaphy since imo it makes Waterpon more desirable as a check to it, but idc. Idc if we don’t do any tests tbh, especially with some form of a reset on the horizon for DLC2.